Is the ability of students and the general public to comprehend a debate to understand the actual intent being lost? If the debate from District 214 and the supposed attempt to ban books is any indication, the answer is yes.
Below are excerpts from the Daily Herald Opinion Section.
Teens’ interest in book [...]
NOTE: If anyone is interested in helping me pass out flyers around the district please use the email link on the right top to contact me. Your help would be much appreciated.
I will keep a link to this article at the top of my blog until the Grayslake Elementary Board makes their final [...]
I have attempted to contact Rockford School Board President Nancy Kalchenbrenner to no avail. This is the evidence I have discovered to date from my discovery of the story earlier today. If I do get in contact, I will update this story.
Below is some of the evidence provided to me and in my [...]
There is a breaking story concerning the Rockford School Board President, Nancy Kalchbrenner. At the school board meeting this week WTVO.com reported that Rockford Schools are looking into doing something similar to what Libertyville/Vernon Hills has done in response to Blog posting. Excerpts below:
“This other district is doing it and we might [...]
The News-Sun and the Daily Herald both have new articles about Grayslake trying to get the school districts in the area to abate bonds to help attract businesses to the Central Range Project. I am also glad to see others finally discussing this. I first mentioned this back in February.
The subject came up [...]
Here is a prime example of what is very likely to happen in Libertyville/Vernon Hills with there new rules on the possibility of disciplinary action for blog posts. A student in Plainfield, IL is facing expulsion for a web post in which he said he was being bullied by the school district. School [...]
What are our Public Government Schools coming to. First they ban the American Flag, albeit for only a day, and now they are banning the use of America and Americans to describe us. (Hat tip: Michael Savage)
Censoring the word “America” from our own schools is something Josef Stalin, Adolf [...]
For those of you have questions and want to make statements about how the banning of the Confederate Flags became the banning of all flags including the American Flag on Cinco de Mayo at Zion-Benton Highschool please attend the school board meeting tonight at the Highschool. If you need a refresher on what took [...]
Governor Blagojevich was able to keeps the competition down in his re-election bid. He is going to sell or lease the State Lottery to fund schools. The pressure to do something was brought on by State Senator Meeks, who has been threatening to run for Governor as a third party candidate. The [...]
Are your kids in the band at school? Are you looking for summer lessons? Then I have some news for you. The Music Director at Saint Joseph’s School, Jamie Dixon, is giving summer lessons. Here are the details:
St. Joseph
118 N. Lincoln Ave.
Round Lake, IL 60073
Summer Band ($50) – 9-10 am
Private Lessons [...]
In a previous post I wrote about Libertyville High School Distirct 128 warning student bloggers they could face penalties depending on what they wrote. The board voted last night and passed the measure. The students and parenets in the district can only hope all the questions I and others have asked about this [...]
District 214 officials have several books on their required reading list that are so obscene that descriptions cannot be printed in the newspaper. (Hat tip: Illinois Family Institute) I also will not print the excerpts. You can find them at IFI or search the book titles on Google.
The books in question are [...]
Bruno, over at Extreme Wisdom, has a great letter from a former teacher who answers this question. His answer is emphatic in that it is for the Unions.
Here is an excerpt:
Your May 4 editorial “rotten apples” expressed a belief I’ve held for almost 50 years; “… unions pretend their political actions are in [...]
I was asked if I would publish this invitiation to Lake County Teachers for a class in storytelling.
The Golden Apple Foundation, in partnership with the Zion Fine Arts Council and the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, extends a special invitation to Lake county teachers to participate in a two-week workshop that will teach [...]
The Daily Herald has a story today about the new Avon Principal. You can also review my story about this here.
Irish is principal of a wealthy private school in the Dominican Republic, one that serves children of parents from several countries’ embassies, including the U.S., Israel and Colombia as well as prominent athletes, [...]
There has been a goose nesting in front of the District offices and Frederick School. Yesterday, 4 of the eggs hatched. The students at Frederick have been keeping a log of the activities. Below are pictures of the goose and goslins. The rest of the eggs may have hatched after these [...]
The new principal for Avon School has been hired. His name is Timothy D. Irish and he comes to us from The Carol Morgan School of Santo Domingo, a private college preparatory school in the Dominican Republic, accredited by the the Southern Assiociation of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and supported by the US State [...]
If you knew Dennis Eash, then please mark your calendars for June 12th. District 46 will be dedicating the media center at the Prairieview school in his honor. Following this ceremony will be the regular school board meeting. I’ll post this again as it gets closer. I just wanted to give [...]
As I reported last night in my board notes, band will continue to be outsourced. Below is the story on this in the Daily Herald by reporter Mike Riopell.
Board members took the cautious route Monday night by deciding the district should continue outsourcing both programs to a private company at least until a space [...]
Below are my notes from the school board meeting tonight. If there are corrections or additions please let me know. My comments will be [italicized].
AGENDA
BOARD OF EDUCATION
COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT 46
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2006
PRAIRIEVIEW SCHOOL
7:30 p.m.
A. Call to Order
B. Roll Call
Kristen absent (family emergency)
C. Establishment of Quorum
D. Pledge of Allegiance
E. Approval of Agenda
Move Science Olympiad [...]
The students at 2 Lake County schools have been warned about their blogging.
Students at Libertyville and Vernon Hills high schools better be careful about what they say about themselves or friends online: Administrators could be watching.
Blog entries implicating teens in illegal or improper activity – even off-campus hi-jinks – could lead to [...]
What have our schools been doing with their ever-increasing tax expenditures? That is question many parents and taxpayers are asking themselves every time they receive a tax bill or hear about how American students are falling behind the rest of the world. This question and several other questions were asked in a letter [...]
Below is the letter to editor I submitted. It was printed in the Daily Herald today.
How much did your taxes go up this year? Mine went up several hundred dollars. Do you know that you have the opportunity to lower your tax bill next year? To do this, you have to [...]
If you ever wondered why notes of School Board meetings should be done by an independent source, look not further than the Gavin School District. They are missing every note and tape of the minutes from their January 10th meeting.
More documents are missing from Gavin Elementary District 37 in Ingleside, casting further suspicion on [...]
My family attended the spring concert at Westlake Christian Academy on Thursday evening. The Intermediate and Concert bands performed along with the Rave (choral ensemble).
The Intermediate Band was composed of 4th – 6th graders with the majority in their second year of band. The students worked very hard this year and [...]
The following letter to the editor was in the News-Sun today.
Have you gotten your tax bill? Of course you have.
How much money can we pour into the school system? Maybe it’s time to reorganize the school system and cut out the waste and misuse of funds.
Bottom line is we are all living on a fixed [...]
Tom Meskel, Grayslake High School 127 School Board Member, breifed other members on what he learned at the NSBA conference in Chicago last month.
GRAYSLAKE — Trustee Tom Meskel attended the annual meeting of the National School Board Association at Chicago’s McCormick Place last month and found that many of the problems facing Illinois school boards [...]
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting letter to the editor today about school funding.
Death. Taxes. The Cubs will not be in the World Series. Among these certainties you can add one more: There is never enough money for our public educational system.
Per-pupil spending for Illinois next year is funded at $5334.
A state finance [...]
According to the Daily Herald, the new Avon Principal may be announced Monday night. They will be replacing outgoing Principal, Dr. Ken Rose.
The Grayslake Elementary District 46 administration could recommend a new principal for Avon School by Monday.
Superintendent Ellen Correll and a committee of other administrators, teachers and a parent interviewed five candidates for [...]
Below is the agenda for the District 46 School Board Meeting on Monday, May 15th. The actual PDF can be found the district website.
TENTATIVE
AGENDA
BOARD OF EDUCATION
COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT 46
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2006
PRAIRIEVIEW SCHOOL
7:30 p.m.
A. Call to Order
B. Roll Call
C. Establishment of Quorum
D. Pledge of Allegiance
E. Approval of Agenda
F. Public Comment
G. Consent Agenda
Approval of [...]
